roughet dial.
(ˈrʌfɪt)
Also 9 roughit, 6, 9 ruffet.
[f. rough a.]
a. A field overgrown with bracken or bushes; a stretch of waste land; a copse. b. Coarse dried grass left on pasturelands as winter fodder for cattle (cf. rowet).
| 1616 Lane Cont. Sqr.'s T. iv. 414 Right perfect in the skilles Of ridinge goiles, plaines, ruffetes, dales, and hills. 1788 W. H. Marshall Yorks. I. 236 The old well-timbered woods..have..got up fortuitously from seedling-plants, rising in neglected roughets. 1796 ― W. Eng. II. 68 The produce—arable crops, grass, wood, and roughets of furze, and rubbish. 1847– in dial. glossaries (Heref., Glouc., Kent). |